Julie Turner became partner emerita in 2017, and now lives in Valencia, Spain. She represented both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and commercial litigation matters over the course of her 20-year career. She litigated patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases involving a wide range of electronics, software, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical technologies. She also represented clients in antitrust, First Amendment, defamation, contract, and business tort cases. Ms. Turner first-chaired ten trials without a defeat. Ms. Turner was named a “Super Lawyer” by Northern California Super Lawyers from 2009 to 2017.

Ms. Turner received her law degree in 1997 from U.C. Berkeley School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and is a member of the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Ms. Turner was a member of the High Technology Law Review and the California Law Review, where she was elected to the executive committee. Ms. Turner received the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and the Jurisprudence Award in Patent Law. Ms. Turner received her B.A. from Barnard College. Between college and law school, Ms. Turner worked in the area of international business and trade.

Before founding Turner Boyd LLP in 2008, Ms. Turner was a partner at Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder LLP, an associate at Cooley Godward LLP, and a solo practitioner.

The Risks to Corporations from Employees’ Online Piracy, in Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value: An International Guide for the Boardroom (Globe White Page), 2003 (with R. Galvin and A. Ortel)